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Nov 23 | Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.
Nov 17 | Originally hired as co-executive producer to help with the second half of the show's first season, Kevin Murphy has now taken the reins of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel on Syfy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He now serves as an executive producer along with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson and oversees the day-to-day functions of the show.
Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
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By GustavoLeao / 06:46, 26 June 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
The latest issue of the official Star Trek Magazine, out in the U.S., features new interviews with Star Trek movie composer Michael Giacchino and stunt coordinator Joey Box. Here are excerpts, courtesy of the publisher of the magazine.
STAR TREK MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH STAR TREK COMPOSER MICHAEL GIACCHINO
Your approach to the score is very different from the John Williams template from Star Wars...
Quite honestly, that was the first direction we went in, and I had written several themes that were in that space opera kind of vein, somewhere between what Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams did, in that language of what we¹ve all come to know as ³space music.² On every one of them, it felt right for a big space movie, but it didn¹t feel like our movie. Again it goes back to the idea that we were trying to do something that wasn¹t exactly what you had seen or heard before. We wanted to do something that was a little different space movies don¹t have to have this sound.
J.J. always wanted to make it about the character he¹d say that the theme for this movie can¹t be polished, it can¹t be soaring, it has to have an almost-unfinished feel in the way that Kirk is almost an unfinished character. He¹s not a finished person he¹s getting there but he¹s not there. He¹s a little rough around the edges. J.J. wanted something that was somewhat sad, somewhat brooding. That is clearly not what Star Trek has been in the past, or Star Wars, or anything that would normally go in that direction.
I think he was absolutely right to say what he said and it really took the music in a different direction. We are dealing with the start of the relationships with these characters that we know so well. It¹s a tough beginning for them, not an easy one. Any time we did try to be too heroic or too traditional, it felt wrong, and not true to what was going on emotionally in the story.
Musically, had we gone in a direction that it had gone before, it might have felt hollow. It wouldn¹t have felt like we were taking it anywhere different.
I feel like it really needed to be treated differently than it has been the last 10 years.
STAR TREK MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH STAR TREK STUNT COORDINATOR JOEY BOX
The skydiving sequence, as Kirk, Sulu and Olsen head for the drilling platform above Vulcan, is one of the movie¹s highlights, and Box admits, was the biggest challenge on the film.
³There were a lot of unknowns. That was all stunts, with a little bit of visual effects,² he says proudly. ³Our fantastic visual effects director, Roger Guyett, added to it tremendously.
We didn¹t do any practical skydiving though. That made it a bit more difficult, because if the photographer is skydiving alongside people falling through space, there¹s a lot more opportunity as far as movement goes. When you start putting wires on people, you can lose the natural body movement that you get in space. However, by shooting it as little set pieces, it did evolve a little bit, and at the end of the day we got a realistic sequence.
I didn¹t feel that we were going from seeing a stuntman skydiving to an actor you never break out of the sequence for the whole time, from the moment they leave the shuttle.
³The first thing we did was mock up the landing,² he continues. ³Then we took the actors and put them on wires. We got them into position and then started to train them. We got their brains and eyes used to being 30-40 feet up in the air, then got them into flight position and took them through it.
At the end of the day, you want your actors to do as much as possible, otherwise you¹re seeing half-profiles and heads turning away unnaturally. I¹d say that on that sequence 80-85 per cent of everything was done by the actors. They didn¹t do the very dangerous landing, but even so, we were dragging Chris Pine across the platform of the drill. He was a real sport, he¹s a tough guy. All of them were fantastic you couldn¹t have got a better group of actors. Chris and John Cho were in there the whole time.²
On-sale dates:
US Issue #19, on sale now
UK Issue #146, on sale 9 July
For more information and to subscribe visit:
US:
http://titanmagazines.com/startrek
UK:
http://titanmagazines.co.uk/startrek
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